Story and photography by Stefhan Gordon of SHGfoto.com
Adolfo Sanchez's Fall/Winter 2010 Collection was inspired by the 1920's-1940's. Sanchez states, "I wanted to take ideas from the past and bring them to life with a new edgy approach."
Thus he created corset's from leather and denim and then embellished them with crystals, spikes, chains, and hand painted saying's like "How Do I Look" or "Gorgeous" on them (image above and 2 immediately below). The accessories were also quite hard. These consisted of suede and leather cuffs covered in grommets tied with strips of leather. There are vintage inspired hats made of crocodile embossed leather and many other fabrics through out the collection. Some of the looks were paired up with leopard lycra and bleach treated cotton leggings. Fur was also something new at Adolfo Sanchez, though Sanchez had used it before, this season about 70% of the furs used are recycled Mink or Muskrat. Sanchez used the furs for scarves, sheared vest, and bracelets.For the evening part of the show Adolfo Sanchez used silk charmeuse, jersey, corset boning and tulle (below). Sanchez started with a cocktail look where we pleated and draped silk charmeuse over sheer netting in different directions leaving parts of the body still exposed.
As For the last look (below) Sanchez really wanted to show the work that usually goes underneath a gown. So he began by building the structure entirely out of boning to almost make it look like a shell or skeleton of a dress. Sanchez then layered tulle and sheer netting underneath the structure so that you would still be able to see all the work. He made it so the back had a corseted finish and last added hand stitched ruffled tulle around the gown to add a more three dimensional look to it. The final gown was about 80% hand stitched.
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